You don't see a lot of this because Chinese martial artists as a general rule don't fight very well. I have practiced the Chinese martial arts for over 18 years now and I can say that 95% of the practitioners do what they think they should be doing rather than attending to the situation at hand i.e. the fight. It's that way for any martial artist really. I've trounced a few mma guys who thought they were in a movie and not right where they should have been. I've seen good fighters who had studied Tae Kwon Do and I have seen really crappy fighters who studied BJJ for years.
Martial arts are games, they build skills, get our minds thinking options and whatnot but martial arts are not fighting. They are skills that can or cannot help us fight. When some dude gets in the ring and says I'm going to use White Crane the most likely outcome is dude is going to get trounced unless the other guy is using his "style."
To make an analogy: I get in the ring with a world heavyweight champion boxer. He is a champion, he knows how to fight. Me? I'm in the other corner with my jump rope and I start skipping rope while he pounds the ever loving crap out of me. This situation describes people who use their martial arts to fight instead of hitting, kicking, breaking, maiming the person in front of them. Fighting is easy. You fight. You beat each other until one of you goes down. Yes it's brutal but that's how it is.
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